BURSTLawmakers plan pressure campaign for release of Epstein files as victims meet with speaker and oversight committee
Congress returns to session on Tuesday, and with it will come a political headache for Donald Trump in the form of renewed attention on the investigation into disgraced financier Jeff Epstein and his death, a subject that the president has sought to avoid in recent weeks.
While the president got a monthlong break from the Epstein issue when lawmakers left town for the annual August recess – with the House of Representatives wrapping up a day early because of the controversy over Epstein – the calm will likely end quickly. On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from both parties have planned press conferences and legislative maneuvers intended to put pressure on the Trump administration for more transparency over Epstein, whose suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019 has been the subject of conspiracy theories the president amplified while on the campaign trail.
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